From rdice at pobox.com Sat Jul 1 10:36:24 2006
From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:36:24 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Damian Conway in Toronto -- final details
Message-ID: <44A6B298.6060903@pobox.com>
Hi everyone,
The details are finalized for the Damian trip. Looking forward to
seeing people out at his talks this week!
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What: Perl 6 Update
When: Monday July 3 (Canada Day stat holiday)
1:00 - 5:00 pm
please aim for arriving around 12:45pm
Where: 2 Bloor Street West (CIBC Tower, our usual TPM meeting spot),
which is at the NW corner of Yonge & Bloor in downtown Toronto
Room # and Floor # as yet to be determined.
Note that building access could be tightly controlled, as will
elevator access, so we'll have to work according to a system of
pre-planned pick-up times as well as phone calls up via cellphone
to get the ferryman to pick you up.
Other: Dinner & beer follows, 5:30 pm - ??
Location: as yet unknown... we'll just pick a place in the
neighbourhood to go following the talk.
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What: Toronto BarCamp DemoCamp
Damian will give a 15 minute demonstration of the Perl 6 language
(That's right -- Perl 6, now!) (4 other presenters each have a
chunk of time there too)
When: Tuesday July 4
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Likely Damian will be speaking towards the end of this time range
Where: see more/full details at: http://barcamp.org/TorCampDemoCamp7
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What: "Fun With Dead Languages"
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//DeadLanguages.html
When: Wednesday July 5
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Where: U. of Toronto
Bahen Centre (40 St. George Street, on the w. side of St.
George just slightly to the north of College)
Room # 1180
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&ll=43.66039,-79.39682&spn=0.014002,0.043259&om=1
Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated
languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn
about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross-
dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club
Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of
moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state
machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the
shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or
subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new
advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces,
drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins,
how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.
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Fundraising
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There are some costs associated with his trip here, so I am taking up
a collection to cover the costs. Any additional money raised will be
given to Damian as an honorarium, in support of such an active Perl
community member who has supported us so much whenever we use Perl
In fact, I aim for there to be such a surplus so that we can help
Damian out while he tours North America this summer. If you can and
would like to donate please email me.
Please note that all of Damian's public talks are free and that he's
committed to all of them, regardless of funds raised. All are
encouraged to attend -- the more, the merrier!
Also note that Fulko Hew has set up a PayPal link to help, in case
that's your bag: http://www.hew.ca/
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About Damian
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For those who don't know Damian, he's from Melbourne, Australian, a
professor of Computer Science at Monash University who has taken a
more-or-less indefinite leave of absence so that he can work on the
Perl 6 effort. (He's Larry Wall's #2 man in the design of the Perl
6 language.) He's also an active contributor to Perl 5, authoring
more CPAN modules than you can comfortably shake a stick at, some
being ridiculous (Coy, Acme::Bleach) while others are profound
(Parse::RecDescent, Regexp::Common, Text::Balanced).
He's a regular speaker at Perl and other IT conferences around the
world, and a crowd favourite.
His Perl books:
"Perl Best Practices" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/
"Object Oriented Perl" http://www.manning.com/conway/
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Any questions, comments, etc. -- just email me!
Cheers,
Richard
From daniel at coder.com Mon Jul 17 14:37:28 2006
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] meeting this thursday
Message-ID:
blah blah http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList by Thursday, usual
location, etc. ;)
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Simon will be discussing his ZoIP project, which brings the classic 1980's
text adventure Zork to your telephone using the Asterisk PBX, Festival
TTS, Sphinx STT, and some Perl to glue it all together.
Happy Monday, stay cool,
Daniel
From eric at uc.org Mon Jul 31 12:47:41 2006
From: eric at uc.org (eMaki)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [kw-pm] September Lightning Talks
Message-ID:
We appear to have enough interest to do a round of lightning
talks this September! As a smaller group, we can afford to be a
bit more flexible than lightning talks at YAPC, so no gong, but
we'll likely warn you if you go over 15, unless it's really
interesting ;)
Good ideas for talks:
- a cool project you are working on
- a great new tool or module you've been using
- an interesting trick or idiom you've been using
- a cool project you would like to do
Bad ideas:
- things that require a lot of set-up or explanation
- things that don't connect to Perl in at least some way
If you would like to do a talk, let me know in the next month or
so, and what your topic will (probably) be. You can always
change your mind or your topic, I just want to get a feel for how
many people want to talk.
The September meeting is September 21st, same bat time, same bat
place.
August meeting is a social, details are on their way.
Regards,
fishbot